We have been reading lots of blogs in anticipation of starting our own. (The MathBlogosphere is wide-ranging and thriving!) At the moment, our plan is to blog at least once a week. Some posts will be about Investigations, and some will not. Authorship will rotate among our authors and staff.

The Goals of This Blog

We hope that regular blogs, on a rotating basis, will help you get to know us and our work and will also support you in your work. But our goals are larger, and broader, than that. While we will certainly be sharing information and expertise, we also want this blog to be a space for:

building a community focused on improving mathematics teaching and learning for all teachers and students

engaging in discussions about mathematics teaching and learning

posing questions and discussing challenges

learning about Investigations, from the field.

The Content of This Blog

As we talked about our questions and interests, we generated a wide range of possible kinds of blog posts, including:

A discussion about a math problem

A vignette from a classroom or professional development setting

Sharing/discussing a piece of student/classroom work (e.g. image or video)

Providing information about features of the curriculum (e.g. Math Workshop, differentiation, the Math Practices), and support in implementing them

Answers to readers’ questions (e.g. Ask an Author)

Reflections on readings, others’ blog posts, or conference sessions

Descriptions of useful resources – e.g. a children’s book, or on/offline games/apps – for doing math with children

We invite you to subscribe to or follow the blog, and engage in discussions in the comments section. We’d love to hear from you about which of these topics you’re most interested in, and any you’d like to add to the list.

We look forward to a collaboration that helps all of us improve the teaching and learning of elementary mathematics.

Megan has been involved in the development and writing of all three editions of Investigations in Number, Data, and Space. Originally a classroom observer who spent many hours in field test classrooms, she is now a senior author, specializing in grades K-2. She has also developed and facilitated professional development around Investigations in particular and elementary mathematics in general.

2 Comments

Eileen Goodspeed
on September 30, 2017 at 10:39 pm

This is very exciting! The Investigations authors and PD developers have a deep understanding of how children learn mathematics. What a wonderful opportunity to create community and have meaningful conversations with them. I look forward to future posts.